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Speaker 1: The beautiful Yardley Smith.

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Speaker 2: Hi.

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Speaker 3: May you normally get called the beautiful Yardley Smith, don't you?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, every day, I hope, so.

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Speaker 3: I hope now you are.

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Speaker 1: And I mean also Lisa Simpson we see is the

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Speaker 1: beautiful kind one on the Simpsons as well. I just

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Speaker 1: cannot believe Yardley thirty years of the Simpsons and we

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Speaker 1: are celebrating with a twenty four hour NonStop marathon I

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Speaker 1: over twenty one days on Fox. I thirty years? Has

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Speaker 1: that time gone quickly for you?

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Speaker 2: In some yes, you know, in some ways it is

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Speaker 2: really that duality where in some regards it feels like

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Speaker 2: every minute of those thirty years, And in some ways

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Speaker 2: you're like, oh my god, I can't believe. Wait, I didn't.

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Speaker 2: I just auditioned for that show. It's funny how time

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Speaker 2: is like that. But I will say somebody actually asked

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Speaker 2: me the other day and said, don't you get tired

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Speaker 2: of playing the same character after all this time? And

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Speaker 2: the answer it genuinely is no. I mean, for one thing,

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Speaker 2: it's not like doing Cats for thirty years. No. Every

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Speaker 2: time I step up to the microphone, you know, she

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Speaker 2: says something different.

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Speaker 1: Can you tell us what the time the timeline of

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Speaker 1: the Simpsons of it over the last thirty years. Can

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Speaker 1: you tell us when it first started, the budget that

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Speaker 1: you had, how basic it was to put one of

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Speaker 1: those shows together compared to when it hit its Pete

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Speaker 1: Yardley and what happened, you know, Like, I mean, how

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Speaker 1: more advanced did the show get as it went on.

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Speaker 2: It's I actually don't know how much. I don't know

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Speaker 2: if the animation was any less expensive when we started,

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Speaker 2: because they used to hand draw all the animation on

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Speaker 2: literally on cellophane, right, that's why they call themselves. And

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Speaker 2: then it was either around it's around season fourteen, I

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Speaker 2: believe that they actually stopped making that material and so

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Speaker 2: we were the last of the animated regular you know,

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Speaker 2: animated series to go to computer animation. But what I

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Speaker 2: actually learned I moderated the panel at Comic Con this

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Speaker 2: year and then at D twenty three, which is Disney's

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Speaker 2: big expo thing, and I learned that even though we

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Speaker 2: do computer animation now, they still hand draw it. They

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Speaker 2: just hand draw it on a computer house, so it's

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Speaker 2: not a great deal less labor intensive.

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Speaker 1: I don't think do you have one of the original

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Speaker 1: Celofie pitches of drawings of laser at home.

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Speaker 2: I have actually quite a few cells, and you can tell,

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Speaker 2: even when you watch the early shows how the animation

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Speaker 2: has changed. It's a little bit more has a little

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Speaker 2: bit more texture in some ways. And when I've asked

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Speaker 2: the animators what are the pros and cons, and they

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Speaker 2: said the pros of going to computer animation was they

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Speaker 2: gained something like literally like a million more colors, which

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Speaker 2: you can't eat. I can't even conceive that. But the

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Speaker 2: are you lost some of the texture show the kind

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Speaker 2: of you know, granular quality of doing something entirely by

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Speaker 2: hand in that.

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Speaker 3: Way, Yeahli, when you, I mean you touched on what

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Speaker 3: you have at home and some of the cells that

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Speaker 3: you have to consider some of the merchandise for the

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Speaker 3: symptoms that's out there. What is your most prized memorabilia

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Speaker 3: that you have at home? What's the one thing you

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Speaker 3: really love?

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Speaker 2: I really really do love this the art because it's

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Speaker 2: so so beautiful. But it's funny that you asked that

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Speaker 2: because I came across I was looking for something else,

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Speaker 2: and I was digging through this closet and I was

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Speaker 2: looking in this box and I have a hat, a

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Speaker 2: baseball hat with this great little silhouette silhouette of Lisa

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Speaker 2: Simpson blowing her saxophone on the front of the hat.

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Speaker 2: And it was I think it was. It was a

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Speaker 2: one off, like it was promotional thing that they were

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Speaker 2: giving out in Fox publicity. And Antonio Cock when he's

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Speaker 2: done Our Fox Our since the pr forever never said

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Speaker 2: wouldn't you love to have this? And I said, oh

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Speaker 2: my god, I would, And of course I tried to

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Speaker 2: get more and than oh no, there are no more?

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Speaker 2: What about the what?

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Speaker 3: What about the cameos on the show, Like you guys

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Speaker 3: have had absolutely everyone come in and do a character

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Speaker 3: who's been your favorite?

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Speaker 2: Several years ago we had Lady Gaga and she came

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Speaker 2: in and spent the whole day with us, and of

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Speaker 2: course that was extraordinary. We had Ludicris come in, Oh yeah,

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Speaker 2: and he was really fun and funny, and he was

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Speaker 2: wearing this long rope of huge diamonds, diamond little you know,

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Speaker 2: Politaier diamonds all strung together. I'm like, dude, can I

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Speaker 2: have that? No? Get your own?

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Speaker 1: Is it? Do you find out? Is it funny that

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Speaker 1: you you were teased at school with your voice? Yardley?

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Speaker 1: Were you?

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah?

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Speaker 1: And now it is. It is financially it has set

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Speaker 1: you up for life. I mean, it's just how long

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Speaker 1: life changes course, isn't it true?

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Speaker 2: I would say, who has the last laugh?

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Speaker 1: Now?

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Speaker 3: Yeah? Well said Yeahdi. When you look at it though,

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Speaker 3: and I asked you if you could remember what was

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Speaker 3: in the first episode? Is there is there a favorite

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Speaker 3: episode or scene that you stick out in your mind

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Speaker 3: that you remember that you just love to think about

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Speaker 3: or celebrates.

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Speaker 2: There's a sort of a running list of about ten.

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Speaker 2: I will say we have over six hundred and sixty

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Speaker 2: six episodes. Now, one of my I would say, one

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Speaker 2: of I feel like one of the quintessential Simpsons episodes

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Speaker 2: is the one where Bart sells a soul to Millhouse. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: and Lisa buys it back for five dollars and says,

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Speaker 2: you know, don't ever say that people don't have a

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Speaker 2: soul anymore, because, if you'll recall, when he steps up

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Speaker 2: to the quickie mart, the doors won't open because they

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Speaker 2: can't detect him. Just great, you know, we took an

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Speaker 2: existential question and then we dealt with it with wit

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Speaker 2: and humor and also really from a kid's point of view,

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Speaker 2: it was just pure genius. It's some of the stuff

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Speaker 2: they do so well. I love all the episodes with

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Speaker 2: Bleeding Gumbs Murphy. I love the episode Lisa's Substitute where

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Speaker 2: she gets a crush crush on her substitute teacher. There's

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Speaker 2: that great episode called the Summer four foot two where

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Speaker 2: they go to Flanders Beach House and you know, she

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Speaker 2: tries to fit in with the popular kids and Bart

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Speaker 2: outs her yes wraps and buy the shirt at the

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Speaker 2: breakfast table when Marge turned her back and says, listen

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Speaker 2: to you, I know, I know it's not your bread

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Speaker 2: and butter, and don't ever ever do that again. When

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Speaker 2: they take her out of her comfort zone. It's so fantastic.

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Speaker 3: Oh I love it, love it.

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Speaker 2: Don't know.

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Speaker 1: I get asked this so the time. You have so

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Speaker 1: many Australian fans. There was a down on the episode

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Speaker 1: as well in The Simpsons as well.

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Speaker 2: I sort of can't believe you actually wanted to speak

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Speaker 2: to me after that.

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Speaker 1: We will an interesting one.

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Speaker 2: The content was one thing, but the accent for quite Annora.

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Speaker 1: Is there anything Lisa wants to say to her fans

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Speaker 1: in Australia before you go.

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Speaker 2: Yardly, Lisa Simpson wants the people in Australia to know

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Speaker 2: that you are the best. There's nobody better than you.

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Speaker 2: Thank you so much for at least welcoming me to

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Speaker 2: your country, because really I'm the only one who truly

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Speaker 2: deserves it.

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Speaker 1: Oh, thank you so much for coming on.

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Speaker 3: We love that chat.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, Thank you guys,